Scott Mather

Scott Mather has been with PIMCO for over two decades, serving as CIO for US Core Strategies and managing the PIMCO Total Return Fund after Bill Gross's departure. He oversees core fixed income strategies that include government bonds, agency MBS, and investment-grade corporates. Mather is known for his disciplined approach to interest rate risk, duration management, and macroeconomic integration in bond portfolios. His experience includes managing positions through multiple Fed cycles and periods of extraordinary central bank intervention. His management of the Total Return Fund through one of the most turbulent fixed income periods in decades — including the taper tantrum, zero rate environment, and subsequent rapid rate normalization — demonstrated the deep institutional expertise that PIMCO's investment process embeds in its senior portfolio management teams. Mather's consistency in navigating these transitions has reinforced confidence in PIMCO's post-Gross institutional framework.